By Pepper Parr
April 12th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
A little celebration and a deserved pat on the back for the people who take care of all that code in our Press Room.
The problem was in there some where.
For the past four to five weeks advertisements that we knew nothing about; advertisements that didn’t produce any revenue for us and advertisements that were so out of character with what we publish each day – were popping up.
It took weeks of scrubbing code, checking the various plug ins we use to determine who the ads were coming from – and why were they ending up in the pages of our newspaper.
Earlier today the miscreant was identified and sent to the place in the sky where bad code goes.
There were complaints – more than one and they were justified. It took far longer than we expected to determine where the problem was and how it came to be.
That experience is behind us.
Your patience was appreciated
Oh good! That was making comments very hard to read. Sorry you had to deal with all that. I find reading many online papers now getting to be a worse experience because of so many ads and especially videos and pop-ups, which often make me just give up and exit out. I still like a hard copy paper the best 😉